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by kumarvvr 4y ago
> Lest we think these ancient peasants ever actually had it good before the foreigners showed up They sure as hell had it much worse after the invaders, looters and religious fanatics wreaked havoc in the region for 1000 years.
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by kumarvvr 4y ago
> This is also a bog standard description of Christianity and a bunch of other religions. I never said India is special in this regard. >Bullshit. Just the history of England and France alone are packed full of wealthy and privileged
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by kumarvvr 4y ago
True. There were a multitude of kings, queens and kingdoms across India, but the study and spread of the cultural and literary roots of India happened all across the sub-continent. That is why, even today, the same chants used in temples in
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by kumarvvr 4y ago
Sorry, making up what?
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This is blatantly false. A western trope resounding forever. Culturally India was a unified entity for millenia. As in, perhaps not having a unified government, but having the same cultural and literary background throughout the region. A
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I wouldn't characterize it as that. Population was low enough, compared to food production. Feeding people is a cultural norm in India, rooted in the scriptures that ones hunger should not be a cause for doing business. The highest ide
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Yeah, but only for monks. Not for householders or the like. A person who eats 3 meals a day is a rogi (Diseased) A person who eats 2 meals a day is a bhogi (A content, satisfied person) A person who eats 1 meal a day is a yogi (A pers
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https://indianculture.gov.in/ebooks/daily-life-ancient-india... A book by a westerner.
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Depends on what you mean by poverty. I mean, how does one even measure it a 1000 years ago. I am suspicious of these reports. Every country has a history of good times and bad times. However, the culture of India is unique in the sense that
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> We've all seen women in third world countries carrying water for cooking and drinking on their heads, often long distances This aspect of 3rd world countries is commented upon again and again. But, what I find most amusing is tha
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In ancient times, right until the attacks by Islamist marauders and "civilized" Britishers, none of what you have mentioned were an issue. Your statement reeks of colonialist attitudes of seeing natives of other lands as some sort
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by kumarvvr 4y ago
I think it is more of an issue with not able to effectively model your data to suit the DDB paradigm. DDB absolutely shines when you have to scale. I mean, have you ever tried setting up a cluster of SQL servers. It's a nightmare. DDB
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Its funny that western history distorts the history of the rest of the world. I hear western kids saying no one used to bathe in the ancient times. As an Indian, it was practically mandatory for each and every individual to take a bath at
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Yeah. This works for me too. Unfortunately, I am in the middle of kicking an internet addiction and I have not had the same concentration as before. But things are improving. I have dozens of books with ideas, doodles, solutions, architectu
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I guess data is one part, but I see this as a smart home eco-system play, that integrates well into their Alexa thing.
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This is great. I was wanting to get a Roomba, but it's too costly in India (the model that has the automatic dust collection thingy) With Amazon buying it, perhaps they will make it available widely here. On an other note, the day is n
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by kumarvvr 4y ago
The attached article is great. Does anyone have any experience or info on how to bring our Business logic out from domain classes and structures, into configuration? Any examples or sample code?
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Depends on what you define sentience as. Is it the presence of a soul, or the presence of capability to learn stuff it is not trained for?
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On desktop, I always use the old. site. On mobile, the app is decent enough (meaning extremely addictive). I used to use the streaming apps to have something like Seinfeld, Friends or BBT running in the background. I would have the streamin
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by kumarvvr 4y ago
Have a voice recorder record your thoughts while in the shower.
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Recently un-installed the following apps. - Reddit - Amazon Prime Video - Netflix I could not shake off the addiction of scrolling for new content and news, all day long. I could not concentrate on any work. I would either be scr
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I would realllllly like to know what tge heck the "metaverse" actually is? I think Mark just put out some buzzwords to buy time.
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> There’s really no viable platform anymore where you can just go passively keep up with what friends and acquaintances are doing. Whatsapp, Telegram and Signal fill that place quite nicely. I regularly check my Whatsapp contacts status
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> my employer quickly matched it I have a very cynical view about this sort of behavior. I feel that managers do this to make the employee lose the offer at hand and then are put on the "first to be fired" list. Once a decision
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by kumarvvr 4y ago
VCs are always in for the "gains". What other reason are they in for? Making the world better? Hah ! Frankly, I have lost all respect for all those VCs who invested in crypto companies.
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Blockchain is a technology . Crypto curriencies, I will consider them ponzi schemes as long as they are marketed as investments If they are marketed as temporary, volatile, risky currencies, then sure, they are not a scam. The whole cryp
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Yup. IO expander chips are the real deal. Having good knowledge on them would enable you to extract a lot of value from even the tiniest of micro controllers. Especially ones tht have an SPI or an I2C interface.
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Ask HN: What software design patterns do you use in your work or side projects?
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Haha. For current state of AI and ML, 95% of the target users would be categorized as "long tail"
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Mostly its a "no one gets fired for choosing IBM" thing. Imagine the position of the CTO if the project went to a smaller sized, not so well known, consulting firm, and it failed. The CTO would be responsible for the failure. But

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